Groton, Connecticut – At Charles Barnam Elementary School in Groton, Connecticut, a group of fifth graders is learning about submarines.
It is the beginning of the recruitment attempt by General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton’s largest employer and Navy’s largest submarine builder. The Navy has an order with electric boats for 29 submarines over the next 17 years.
“People sometimes like, ‘Why are you in primary schools?” In 2033, some of the people we are hiring are currently in the fifth grade, “said the director of the Talent Management for the Courtney Murphy, electric boat.
Murphy says that business workers, welders and machineists are currently in demand. And this training is going well at a nearby Ella Grasso Technical High School, where students work with the same state -of -the -art equipment in the shipyard.
Students learn to work in hot, tight places similar to submarines.
“It focuses on me,” a senior, Xiamir Fletcher asked why he was designed for welding. “Once you start welding, it is that, set dead on welding.”
It is part of a national effort by Shipyard and Navy to bring 100,000 skilled workers in the next 10 years. They are immediately needed to build a new fleet of nuclear missile submarines and a new fleet of small fast-haraels.
To achieve this, the electric boat needs to double its production.
Adam William Houston, director of the Navy Nuclear Proposition Program, said, “This is the number 1 construction priority of the Navy.” “How important it is.”
Houston says that submarines are important for the Navy goals.
“They can go anywhere, anytime, and catch an opponent at risk,” Houston explains. “They can simply see what you are doing, and you don’t even know that they are there.”
However, the problem is that they do not have enough with the Navy. Electric boat is provoking to meet the national security challenge, a challenge, Adam Chocola and Emma are happy to take Isbel, who joined the company as a new welder 18 months ago.
“This is a lot of stress, but the more you do it, the easier and more natural you do,” ChioCola said.
Isabel said, “There are not many people in the world who can say that they build nuclear submarines.” “Like, it’s great.”
And as far as the Navy is concerned, there are not enough people who can say that they form nuclear submarines. The future of the fleet is riding on it.
Charlie D’Atata
